Hancock v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Our legislature says in Art. 484, P. C., that “A person traveling” who carries a pistol is not punishable therefor — but fails to define or say who is a person traveling, and the courts through all these years have traveled devious routes, going from one set of facts to another different, and on to another, trying in each to find some resting place upon which might be planted judicial announcement as to who is a traveler, but, alas! have found it not. The ancient with his ox cart, the Mexican with his burro, the pioneer with his roadless route, the…